I'm not an expert. I desperately need help. I'm using Premiere Pro CS6 (just updated yesterday to 2014, creative cloud, on Mac OS 10.9.4) to make a tribute video for my dad's memorial service and need to export it immediately! (by tomorrow). I've successfully used premiere pro CS6 for other projects this year, and just upgraded yesterday to the new version and worked for 15 hours to finish my project in the new version. Now I can't open my completed project in the older version.
When I went to export it, it freezes at "2% of 1st pass" and after an hour or so, my entire computer freezes and I have to force shut it down. (I am not having this computer issue with any other application that I use.) I continued to re-try to export it (with slightly different settings) 5 times, and now "export" under File is grayed out.
As far as export settings, please bear with me - I'm a novice. Every time I do ANYTHING in Premiere Pro, I pretty much have to search for a tutorial video for each step. From what I can 'remember', here's what I did:
1. rendered project from "in to out"
2. Export > media
3. chose h.264 (or something like that)
4. i think i selected something like "match sequence settings"
5. checked "render at maximum bitrate" (or high bitrate?)
6. selected "2 pass"
7. on the two slider things - about bitrate something, the bottom one I slid all the way to the right because that didn't affect the size of my project file, the top slider I only moved over to 14-ish. (I changed this setting each time I re-tried to export, in case it was the problem)
My file size was around 1400MB - its a 14 minute long project with video and still images put to music and voice over.
I'm really freaking out. If anyone is awake, reading this, and knows what to do, please help me!
Thanks for your patience. I'll try to give you as much info as I can remember, but I can't open up the export window anymore.